Block contracts slowing down surgery
Block funding contracts are undermining the throughput and care quality of a common emergency operation, leading clinicians have told HSJ.
Supplier suing trust after rival’s ‘lucrative proposal’
An acute provider is being sued after telling one of its suppliers its contract would not be extended due to a “lucrative proposal” from a rival.
London Eye: Freedom to speak up
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Revealed: the trusts furthest behind on efficiency plans
A total of 20 trusts had achieved only 30 per cent or less of their 2024-25 planned efficiency programmes by the end of October, with four delivering below 20 per cent, research by HSJ has revealed.
Top trusts failed mortuary security checks
Some of England’s most prestigious trusts have been caught with inadequate security for their mortuaries – despite recent high-profile breaches, HSJ can reveal.
NHS Providers appoints new CEO
NHS Providers has appointed an ambulance trust boss who also has extensive acute sector experience as its new chief executive.
London Eye: The (surprising) names linked to England’s top hospital job
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Former Whitehall mandarin to chair hospital group
A hospital group has appointed a former senior Whitehall figure as its new chair.
HSJ Podcast: Delay and disappointment for the ‘new hospitals’
This week government finally revealed its new - and mostly delayed - target dates for the building of the promised “new hospitals”.
‘New hospital’ teams face axe after funding withdrawn
Multiple trusts in the “new hospitals programme” are likely to have to axe the teams preparing their builds, as national funding is set to be withdrawn, HSJ has learned.
Departing CEO given £120,000 back pay
A trust chief executive was given £120,000 in back pay and a total £380,000 in salary payments shortly before leaving the role, it has emerged.
200 patients failed after hospital missed warning
Hundreds of patients got the wrong or no treatment for a lung condition, a trust investigation has found, five years after concerns were first raised.
Revealed: the ongoing impact of delays to ‘new hospital’ schemes
Infrastructure failings have led to over 1,000 operations being cancelled in the past two years at just 14 trusts, whose rebuilding plans have been placed under review by the new government, HSJ can reveal.
‘Suboptimal’ IT system still used by multiple trusts
More than a dozen trusts are still using a widely criticised “suboptimal” electronic patient record system, which was discontinued by its supplier more than two years ago, HSJ can reveal.
Concerns over ‘essential’ newborn breathing equipment at one in five hospitals
One in five recent inspections of maternity services have raised concerns over “essential” breathing equipment for newborn babies, HSJ has found.
London Eye: The NHS in the election campaign
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Following the Money: The trusts with the biggest drops in productivity
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
Thirty trusts report more 12-hour waits, despite national improvement
Long A&E waits have got worse at more than one in five acute trusts, despite an improving trend nationally.
London Eye: A troubling narrative
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Trusts ‘pause’ merger of exec teams
Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of nearly £3bn have “paused” plans to merge their executive director teams.